Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
~By Barry Levinson ~
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.
~By Steven Hill ~
It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
~By Clancy Brown ~
How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.
~By Dinah Maria Mulock ~
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
But if I'm going to cause somebody else discomfort by my actions, then I should probably modify my actions toward them to make them as comfortable as possible.
~By Max Cannon ~
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
~By Ruby Dee ~
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.
~By Jerry B. Jenkins ~
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
~By Saint Basil ~
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
~By Katie Couric ~
I've got a bit of money in the bank. I'm quite comfortable.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.
~By Neil Jordan ~
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.
~By Bob Mould ~
Our studio is kind of built into our home, so it's a place you can ramble, and we can do a pretty good recording here. The band is really comfortable her.
~By Chris Frantz ~
People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
~By Steve Irwin ~
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
~By Alan Alda ~
It was a lot of fun, and writing a series is comfortable. It's almost like having a secure job.
~By Thomas Perry ~
It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.
~By Noah Hathaway ~
I'm generally more and more in my comfort zone in the wild.
~By Tom Felton ~
I've been using the Mac solely for years, and got very comfortable with it.
~By Jerry Goldsmith ~
At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service.
~By Dave Reichert ~
If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.
~By Toni Braxton ~
You can never be comfortable with your success, you've got to be paranoid you're going to lose it.
~By Lou Gerstner ~
I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.
~By Rick Schroder ~
O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.
~By Elias Hicks ~
I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.
~By Leverett Saltonstall ~
Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
~By Rob Lowe ~
I got so used to being unstable that I started to only be comfortable being unstable.
~By Josh Lucas ~
But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
~By James Young ~
Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.
~By John Malkovich ~
I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
We are all encouraged that Bush appears, really for the first time in his experience on the stage of presidential politics, relaxed. His comfort is our comfort.
~By John Dean ~
When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.
~By William Petersen ~
And I'm comfortable being who I am, so I think a lot of people who take over from a founder worry about how they compare to the founder; I worry about doing the best I can.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.
~By Peter McWilliams ~
Pauley Perrette: I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me on NCIS because I was comfortable with the language, I had studied criminal science in school for years.
~By Pauley Perrette ~
The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason.
~By Ted Danson ~
It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable.
~By Mia Kirshner ~
I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it's quite nice.
~By Charlotte Rampling ~
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
~By Ben Nelson ~
I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.
~By Carter Burwell ~
I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter.
~By Daniel Morgan ~
Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.
~By Monica Bellucci ~
I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.
~By Alicia Silverstone ~
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
~By Jared Diamond ~
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
~By Winston Churchill ~
At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
~By Phil McGraw ~
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have companions in woe.
~By Simon Forman ~
The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.
~By Scott Brooks ~
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
~By Aesop ~
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?
~By Lucinda Williams ~
I had never really pictured myself working in children's ministries. I always figured I would be more comfortable with maybe teens or adult ministries.
~By Willie Aames ~
So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.
~By Harry Reid ~
But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.
~By Robert Falcon Scott ~
It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
I'm very comfortable in having a strong team. I'm very comfortable in sharing the limelight with the team.
~By Sanjay Kumar ~
We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.
~By Roscoe Bartlett ~
Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities.
~By Thomas Perry ~
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
~By Annie Lennox ~
Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.
~By Brian Austin Green ~
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
~By Van Morrison ~
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors.
~By Jason Dohring ~
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
~By Jane Austen ~
I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don't think those things are right for me.
~By Elvis Presley ~
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
~By Emile Durkheim ~
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
~By H. Jackson Brown, Jr. ~
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
~By Philip Seymour Hoffman ~
The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
The ongoing strife in Iraq, and the billions of dollars that the President is seeking to continue that war, give me little comfort that this Administration has learned from its mistakes in Iraq.
~By Robert Byrd ~
It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection.
~By Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards ~
I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don't always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
~By Adam Sandler ~
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
~By Anna Lee ~
Hold me in your arms, lava lamp! Let me seek magma comfort and peace in the warmth of your kryptonite embrace.
~By Isabel Yosito ~
I didn't think I was fat. I just thought I didn't need to gain any weight. But I would drop weight and then I would be comfortable with that number. Then I would lose more weight and that would become my new number.
~By Tracey Gold ~
Cook ingredients that you are used to cooking by other techniques, such as fish, chicken, or hamburgers. In other words be comfortable with the ingredients you are using.
~By Bobby Flay ~
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
~By Clifton Paul Fadiman ~
I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
~By Tom Bergeron ~
Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.
~By Paul Farmer ~
You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
~By Princess Diana ~
Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
~By Gail Sheehy ~
One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
~By Jean Kerr ~
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.
~By Robert Downey, Jr. ~
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